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WILLIAM MOZART MORSE, JR.
In the year 1905,
William Mozart Morse, Jr., was admitted to the state bar of California and he
has the distinction of having been the first student from Southwestern
University in Los Angeles to attain this honor. Since that time he has practiced with
outstanding success in Los Angeles and is rated
as one of the foremost members of the bar in Southern
California.
Mr. Morse was
born in Richmond, Missouri, on the 20th of February, 1873, and
is a son of William Mozart, Sr., and Virginia (Wirt) Morse, members of
representative families of that state.
In obtaining his education, Mr. Morse was very versatile in his
selection of courses. The public schools
of Hot Springs, Arkansas,
were his starting point, after which he attended the College
of Pharmacy and Medical
School in St. Louis, Missouri. Next he was a student in the Barnes Medical
College of St. Louis, Missouri, and then he came to Los
Angeles to enter the Southwestern
University to prepare
himself for the practice of law. He has
practiced continually in this city since that date and his work may be
described as general practice in both the California
and the Federal courts, and likewise in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, a United States
court. Mr. Morse is a member of the Los
Angeles County Bar Association and the California State Bar Association. At one time he was a candidate for municipal
judge in Los Angeles,
and he is a former member of the Republican state central committee.
In the year 1905,
in New Jersey, Mr. Morse was married to Miss
Grace A. Morgan; a native of New York
state. To their marriage two children
have been born. The eldest is their
daughter, Augusta Louise, who is the wife of Curtis Barnes, a petroleum
engineer. They have two children,
William Curtis and Ka-lou. Mr. and Mrs.
Barnes met while both were students at the University of Southern
California.
J. H. Morse, second child and son of Mr. and Mrs. Morse, studied law at Southwestern University
and later was a student at Loyola College in Los
Angeles. He is
now associated with the Paramount motion
picture corporation, in charge of the juvenile department.
Mr. Morse is a
Mason, and a member of the Knights of Pythias and the Benevolent and Protective
Order of Elks.
Transcribed by Bill Simpkins.
Source: California of the South
Vol. V, by John Steven McGroarty, Pages 269-270, Clarke Publ., Chicago, Los Angeles, Indianapolis. 1933.
© 2012 Bill Simpkins.
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